Lots of people were interested in our methodology, and there were many questions about which brands we’d chosen for the analysis and why.

The answer was that we analysed the top eight news websites in Australia (as measured by Nielsen), plus any other capital-city news publication.

Several people wondered aloud how our list - which was topped by The Daily Mail’s Caleb Taylor with 1083 stories or 4.5 a day - would compare to writers at other publications, be that specialist websites, trade press, blogs or regional and community news.

Lorraine Elliott, aka food blogger Not Quite Nigella, is one of Australia’s most prolific web publishers.

So this week we decided to throw open the doors to all comers and publish a list taken from across the thousands of Australian content websites that Streem monitors.

The results were fairly mind-boggling to say the least.

Number one on the list was TV Tonight blogger David Knox who put out an astonishing 5856 pieces in one year under his name. That would be 24.4 a day, or one every 19 minutes, if David was working a 9-to-5 job, five days a week with holidays. Something tells us he wasn’t, however, and that this was a labour of love. (It seems like he had his fair share of help, too, from TV station PR departments.)

We expected to see a few regional or rural journalists’ names crop up, but they were seemingly outgunned by the digital natives.

Once again, we reiterate our original message - that quantity is no substitute for quality and that all lists of journalistic output should be taken with a healthy grain of salt.

Top 20 most prolific web authors in Australia

(Rank, name, publication, genre, story count)

David Knox, TV Tonight, Entertainment, 5856

James Mickleboro, The Motley Fool, Business, 2402

Shanee Dobeson, MyGC, Local, 2186

Lorraine Elliott, Not Quite Nigella, Food, 2156

Jaydan Duck, MyGC, Local, 1820

Phil Sandberg, Content + Technology, Media/Tech, 1754

Sam Varghese, iTWire, Tech, 1733

David Scutt, Business Insider, Business, 1702

Daniel Tyson, Ausdroid, Tech, 1654

Sarah Thompson, AFR, Business, 1558

Paul Cashmere, Noise 11, Music, 1529

Abigail Dawson, Mumbrella, Media, 1440

James Wong, Car Advice, Motoring, 1360

Nikki Black, New Idea, Lifestyle, 1351

Alex Walker, Kotaku, Gaming, 1314

Roma Christian, Channel News, Consumer, 1294

Peter Dinham, iTWire, Tech, 1278

Amy Flower, Stack, Entertainment (JB Hi-Fi publication), 1277

Tristan Harrison, The Motley Fool, Business, 1271

Olivia Esveld, KIIS 1065, Entertainment, 1258

About Streem

Streem delivers comprehensive and realtime Print, Online, TV, Radio and Social media monitoring and insights to Australia’s leading corporate and government media teams. Every day we help organisations to monitor, analyse and respond to media as-it-happens. Find out more.

Methodology: Dates analysed: March 1, 2018-Feb 28, 2019. Joint bylines were not counted. Because of the complex array of syndication arrangements across the thousands of websites monitored, we based entries only on the maximum number of bylines an author had accrued at one publication.